I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

If it didn't work out today, don't feel incapable of achieving it and give up. Learn from it without losing faith and enthusiasm. Tomorrow is another opportunity to try again with a better approach.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.

The devil will give up when he sees that you are not going to give in.

There is no accounting for human beings.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

I want to become the SHINee that will exist in your hearts and be remembered forever

The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.